MathematikaPub Date : 2024-07-23DOI: 10.1112/mtk.12273
Francesco Battistoni, Loïc Grenié, Giuseppe Molteni
{"title":"The first and second moments for the length of the period of the continued fraction expansion for","authors":"Francesco Battistoni, Loïc Grenié, Giuseppe Molteni","doi":"10.1112/mtk.12273","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1112/mtk.12273","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Let <span></span><math></math> be any positive and non-square integer. We prove an upper bound for the first two moments of the length <span></span><math></math> of the period of the continued fraction expansion for <span></span><math></math>. This allows to improve the existing results for the large deviations of <span></span><math></math>.</p>","PeriodicalId":18463,"journal":{"name":"Mathematika","volume":"70 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141968078","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
MathematikaPub Date : 2024-07-23DOI: 10.1112/mtk.12269
Tim Browning, Matteo Verzobio
{"title":"Strong divisibility sequences and sieve methods","authors":"Tim Browning, Matteo Verzobio","doi":"10.1112/mtk.12269","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1112/mtk.12269","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We investigate strong divisibility sequences and produce lower and upper bounds for the density of integers in the sequence that only have (somewhat) large prime factors. We focus on the special cases of Fibonacci numbers and elliptic divisibility sequences, discussing the limitations of our methods. At the end of the paper, there is an appendix by Sandro Bettin on divisor closed sets that we use to study the density of prime terms that appear in strong divisibility sequences.</p>","PeriodicalId":18463,"journal":{"name":"Mathematika","volume":"70 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1112/mtk.12269","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141968066","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
MathematikaPub Date : 2024-07-20DOI: 10.1112/mtk.12268
Michael J. Curran
{"title":"Correlations of the Riemann zeta function","authors":"Michael J. Curran","doi":"10.1112/mtk.12268","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1112/mtk.12268","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Assuming the Riemann hypothesis, we investigate the shifted moments of the zeta function\u0000\u0000 </p>","PeriodicalId":18463,"journal":{"name":"Mathematika","volume":"70 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-07-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1112/mtk.12268","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141736836","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
MathematikaPub Date : 2024-07-17DOI: 10.1112/mtk.12266
Alexandra Bakó-Szabó, Ferenc Fodor
{"title":"On the variance of the mean width of random polytopes circumscribed around a convex body","authors":"Alexandra Bakó-Szabó, Ferenc Fodor","doi":"10.1112/mtk.12266","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1112/mtk.12266","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Let <span></span><math></math> be a convex body in <span></span><math></math> in which a ball rolls freely and which slides freely in a ball. Let <span></span><math></math> be the intersection of <span></span><math></math> i.i.d. random half-spaces containing <span></span><math></math> chosen according to a certain prescribed probability distribution. We prove an asymptotic upper bound on the variance of the mean width of <span></span><math></math> as <span></span><math></math>. We achieve this result by first proving an asymptotic upper bound on the variance of the weighted volume of random polytopes generated by <span></span><math></math> i.i.d. random points selected according to certain probability distributions, then, using polarity, we transfer this to the circumscribed model.</p>","PeriodicalId":18463,"journal":{"name":"Mathematika","volume":"70 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-07-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1112/mtk.12266","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141639576","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
MathematikaPub Date : 2024-06-30DOI: 10.1112/mtk.12263
Krishnendu Bhowmick, Ben Lund, Oliver Roche-Newton
{"title":"Large convex sets in difference sets","authors":"Krishnendu Bhowmick, Ben Lund, Oliver Roche-Newton","doi":"10.1112/mtk.12263","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1112/mtk.12263","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We give a construction of a convex set <span></span><math></math> with cardinality <span></span><math></math> such that <span></span><math></math> contains a convex subset with cardinality <span></span><math></math>. We also consider the following variant of this problem: given a convex set <span></span><math></math>, what is the size of the largest matching <span></span><math></math> such that the set\u0000\u0000 </p>","PeriodicalId":18463,"journal":{"name":"Mathematika","volume":"70 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1112/mtk.12263","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141488348","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
MathematikaPub Date : 2024-06-28DOI: 10.1112/mtk.12262
Nikolay Moshchevitin, Anurag Rao, Uri Shapira
{"title":"Badly approximable grids and -divergent lattices","authors":"Nikolay Moshchevitin, Anurag Rao, Uri Shapira","doi":"10.1112/mtk.12262","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1112/mtk.12262","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Let <span></span><math></math> be a matrix. In this paper, we investigate the set <span></span><math></math> of badly approximable targets for <span></span><math></math>, where <span></span><math></math> is the <span></span><math></math>-torus. It is well known that <span></span><math></math> is a winning set for Schmidt's game and hence is a dense subset of full Hausdorff dimension. We investigate the relationship between the measure of <span></span><math></math> and Diophantine properties of <span></span><math></math>. On the one hand, we give the first examples of a nonsingular <span></span><math></math> such that <span></span><math></math> has full measure with respect to some nontrivial algebraic measure on the torus. For this, we use transference theorems due to Jarnik and Khintchine, and the parametric geometry of numbers in the sense of Roy. On the other hand, we give a novel Diophantine condition on <span></span><math></math> that slightly strengthens nonsingularity, and show that under the assumption that <span></span><math></math> satisfies this condition, <span></span><math></math> is a null-set with respect to any nontrivial algebraic measure on the torus. For this, we use naive homogeneous dynamics, harmonic analysis, and a novel concept that we refer to as mixing convergence of measures.</p>","PeriodicalId":18463,"journal":{"name":"Mathematika","volume":"70 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1112/mtk.12262","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141488972","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
MathematikaPub Date : 2024-06-27DOI: 10.1112/mtk.12265
Aritra Ghosh, Mallesham Kummari
{"title":"Sub-Weyl type range for twisted short sums","authors":"Aritra Ghosh, Mallesham Kummari","doi":"10.1112/mtk.12265","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1112/mtk.12265","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Let\u0000\u0000 </p>","PeriodicalId":18463,"journal":{"name":"Mathematika","volume":"70 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141488956","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
MathematikaPub Date : 2024-06-27DOI: 10.1112/mtk.12264
Anwesh Ray
{"title":"Iwasawa theory of fine Selmer groups associated to Drinfeld modules","authors":"Anwesh Ray","doi":"10.1112/mtk.12264","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1112/mtk.12264","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Let <span></span><math></math> be a prime power and <span></span><math></math> be the rational function field over <span></span><math></math>, the field with <span></span><math></math> elements. Let <span></span><math></math> be a Drinfeld module over <span></span><math></math> and <span></span><math></math> be a nonzero prime ideal of <span></span><math></math>. Over the constant <span></span><math></math>-extension of <span></span><math></math>, we introduce the fine Selmer group associated to the <span></span><math></math>-primary torsion of <span></span><math></math>. We show that it is a cofinitely generated module over <span></span><math></math>. This proves an analogue of Iwasawa's <span></span><math></math> conjecture in this setting, and provides context for the further study of the objects that have been introduced in this article.</p>","PeriodicalId":18463,"journal":{"name":"Mathematika","volume":"70 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141488954","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
MathematikaPub Date : 2024-05-28DOI: 10.1112/mtk.12261
Chris Lambie-Hanson, Dávid Uhrik
{"title":"Hajnal–Máté graphs, Cohen reals, and disjoint-type guessing","authors":"Chris Lambie-Hanson, Dávid Uhrik","doi":"10.1112/mtk.12261","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1112/mtk.12261","url":null,"abstract":"<p>A Hajnal–Máté graph is an uncountably chromatic graph on <span></span><math></math> satisfying a certain natural sparseness condition. We investigate Hajnal–Máté graphs and generalizations thereof, focusing on the existence of Hajnal–Máté graphs in models resulting from adding a single Cohen real. In particular, answering a question of Dániel Soukup, we show that such models necessarily contain triangle-free Hajnal–Máté graphs. In the process, we isolate a weakening of club guessing called <i>disjoint-type guessing</i> that we feel is of interest in its own right. We show that disjoint-type guessing is independent of <span></span><math></math> and, if disjoint-type guessing holds in the ground model, then the forcing extension by a single Cohen real contains Hajnal–Máté graphs <span></span><math></math> such that the chromatic numbers of finite subgraphs of <span></span><math></math> grow arbitrarily slowly.</p>","PeriodicalId":18463,"journal":{"name":"Mathematika","volume":"70 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1112/mtk.12261","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141165000","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
MathematikaPub Date : 2024-05-24DOI: 10.1112/mtk.12256
Shreyasi Datta, Justin Liu
{"title":"On absolutely friendly measures on","authors":"Shreyasi Datta, Justin Liu","doi":"10.1112/mtk.12256","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1112/mtk.12256","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In this paper, we extend the work of Pollington and Velani [Selecta Math. 11(2005)] to an <span></span><math></math>-arithmetic set-up, where <span></span><math></math> is a finite set of valuations of <span></span><math></math>. In particular, for an <i>absolutely friendly</i> measure <span></span><math></math> supported on a compact set in <span></span><math></math>, we give a summation condition on an approximating function <span></span><math></math> such that <span></span><math></math> almost no point in the compact set is <span></span><math></math> approximable. The crucial ingredient is a version of the simplex lemma that we prove dynamically.</p>","PeriodicalId":18463,"journal":{"name":"Mathematika","volume":"70 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-05-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1112/mtk.12256","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141096425","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}